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ROXBURY 

Historical Society 



Organized as the roxbury Military Historical Society 
December 9, 1891 

Reorganized as the Roxbury Historical Society 

APRIL 10, 1901 

Incorporated may 15, 1901 



CHARTER, BY-LAWS 



LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 



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OFFICERS FOR 1903. 



President. 
HON. EDWARD SEAVER. 

Vice-Presidents . 

CAPT. JOHN A. SCOTT. JOHN CARR. 

CAPT. ISAAC P. GRAGG. 

Secretar}!. 
HENRY A. MAY. 

Assistant Secretarj/. 
JOHN C. COOK. 



Treasurer. 
JAMES L 



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Assistant Treasurer. 

JOHN E. Oilman. 

Executive Committee. 

HON. EDWARD SEAVER, 
HENRY A. MAY, DEPENDENCE S. WATERMAN, 

FRANCIS J. WARD, LIEUT. OLIVER D. GREENE, 

JOHN E. GILMAN, HON. WILLIAM M. OLIN, 

GEORGE WARREN, AUGUSTUS BACON. 

Board of Trustees of Roxhury Historical Society. 

FRANCIS J. WARD, Chairman, JOHN CARR, Treasurer, 

GORHAM ROGERS, Secretary, JUDGE SOLOMON A. BOLSTER, 

HON. WILLIAM W- DAVIS. 



CHARTER. 

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Be it known, That whereas William M. Olin, George H. Nason, Henry A. 
May, Francis Jackson Ward, John E. Gilman, George Warren, Dependence S. 
Waterman, Oliver D. Greene, Solomon A. Bolster, Augustus Bacon, John Carr, 
Isaac P. Gragg, William W. Davis, Edwin U. Curtis, Martin L. Gate, John A. 
Scott, William M. Shay, Frank Ferdinand, John C. Cook, Kilby Page, Harlan 
P. Whitcomb, Francis B. Perkins, John Perrins, Jr., Herbert F. Morse, L. Foster 
Morse, Edward Seaver, John D. Williams Horace T. Rockwell, Jediah P. Jordan, 
Nathan A. M. Dudley, Joseph L. Bergman, Gorham Rogers, Thomas R. Mathews, 
James L. Hilliird, Alfred Newmarch, Samuel C. Jones, William A. Gaston, Robert 
A. Jordan, George H. Waterman, and Joseph H. Frothingham, have associated 
themselves, with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the 

ROXBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 

for the purpose of, 1st, perpetuating the history of Roxbury, and its military 
citizens and organizations; 2d, encouraging the volunteer militia; advocating 
measures and principles that will tend to strengthen the patriotism of the com- 
munity ; and have complied with the provisions of the Statutes of this Common- 
wealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the 
President, Treasurer, Clerk, Executive Committee and Trustees, having the power 
of Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corpora- 
tions and recorded in this office : 

Now, therefore, I, William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, do hereby certify that said William M. Olin, George H. Nason, Henry 
A. May, Francis Jackson Ward, John E. Gilman, George Warren, Dependence 
S. Waterman, Oliver I) (Greene, Solomon A. Bt>lster, Augustus Bacon, John 
Carr, Isaac P. Gragg, William W. Davis, Edwin U. Curtis, Martin L. Cate, John 
A. Scott, William E. Shay, Frank Ferdinand, John C. Cook, Kilby Page, Harlan 
P. W'hitconib, F"rancis B Perkins, John Perrins, Jr., Herbert F. Morse, L, Foster 
Morse, ICdvvard Seaver, John D. Williams, Horace T. Rockwell, Jediah P. 
Jordan, Nathan A. M. Dudley, Joseph L. Bergman, Gorham Rogers, Thomas R. 
Mathews, James L. Hilliard, Alfred Newmarch, Samuel C. Jones, William A. 
Gaston, Robert A. Jordan, George H. Waterman, and Joseph H. Frothingham, 
their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are 
hereby made an existing corporation under the name of the 

ROXBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the Seal 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, 
this fifteenth of Mav, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
nine hundred and one. 




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WILLIAM M. OLIN, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



BY-LAWS 



ROXBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



I. NAME. 



This Society slial! be known as tlie ROXBURY HISTORICAL 

Society. 

ii. objects. 

The objects for which the Society shall be maintained shall 
be as follows : 

ist. To perpetuate the history of Roxbury and of its military 
citizens and organizations. 

2d. To encourage the volunteer militia. 

3d. To advocate measures and principles that will tend to 
strengthen the patriotism of the community. 

III. OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES. 

The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, 
three Vice-Presidents, Clerk, Assistant Clerk, Treasurer, Assis- 
tant Treasurer, and an Executive Committee consisting of nine 
members, including the President and Clerk, and a Board of five 
Trustees of the Permanent Fund. 

The duties of the Presi lent, Vice-Presidents, Clerk, Assistant 
Clerk, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer shall be such as 



6 BY-L^IVS. 

ordinarily pertain to such offices, and such special duties as the 
Executive Committee may at any time request of them. The 
Clerk shall also serve as Secretary of the Executive Committee. 
The officers and Trustees shall be elected at the first meet- 
ing of the incorporators, to serve until January, 1902, and 
thereafter as herein provided. 

IV. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

The policy and management of the Society, the admission 
and discharge of members, remission of dues, control of expen- 
ditures, auditing of accounts, arrangements for the stated 
meetings and annual dinner, maintenance of headquarters, 
charge of Society property, except the funds and property in the 
hands of the Trustees, and all other matters pertaining to its 
welfare, except nomination of officers, shall be vested, with 
full powers, in the Executive Committee, subject to such votes 
or orders as may be passed by the Society, 

V. MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second 
Wednesday of December in each year, at which meeting the 
Executive Committee, Treasurer, and the Trustees shall make a 
report, and at which all officers, excepting the Trustees, shall be 
elected to serve for one year from the first day of January 
following, or until their successors are duly elected. 

The Society shall hold meetings on the second Wednesday of 
March, June, and September, and at such other times as the 
President may order, and every member shall be mailed a printed 
notice of all meetings, at least three days before the date for 
holding said meetings. 

The Society shall hold an annual dinner, on such day in Jan- 
uary or February as the Executive Committee may determine. 



BY-LA IVS. 7 

As far as practicable, all meetings of the Society shall be held 
within the limits of the Town of Roxbury, and all orders, 
notices, and communications shall be dated " Roxbury." 

Twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum at any meet- 
ing of the Society. 

No subject of a sectarian or political nature shall be discussed 
or acted upon at any meeting or gathering of the Society. 

VI. ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

Any person interested in the objects of the Society, and who 
shall be acceptable to the Executive Committee, shall be eligible 
for membership. 

All applicants for membership must sign a printed form of 
application, which shall also be signed by the member present- 
ing the same, which shall be filed with the Clerk, who shall lay 
the same before the Executive Committee for their action. A 
majority vote of any legal meeting of the Committee shall be 
necessary for admission, provided, however, that the present 
members of the Roxbury Military Historical Society may be 
admitted as members by vote of the Executive Committee with- 
out making a written application. 

Every member shall be notified by the Clerk of his admission. 

VII. WITHDRAWAL OR DISCHARGE OF MEMBERS. 

Any member desiring to withdraw from the Society shall 
notify the Clerk in writing of his desire, and upon receipt of 
such commiunication by the Clerk, he shall be considered as 
having withdrawn his membership, and the Clerk shall make a 
minute to that effect on the records of the Executive Committee, 
and notify the person withdrawing of that fact, and shall report 
such withdrawal to the Society at its next meeting. 

The Executive Committee shall have power to terminate the 



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membership of any member who shall be in arrears for dues for 
two successive years after proper notice to said delinquent ; and 
in case of such action by the Committee the party shall be 
notified by the Clerk. 

VIII. LIFE MEMBERSHIP. 

Any member upon his admission, or at any subsequent time, 
who shall pay into the treasury through the Clerk the sum of 
twenty-five dollars, shall become a life member, and shall not 
thereafter be subject to the regular annual dues, but in all 
other respects he shall stand the same as other members. 

IX. HONORARY MEMBERSHIP. 

Persons who have rendered unusual service to the Society, 
valuable correspondents, and former residents of Roxbury whose 
public record has been meritorious, may be elected Honorary 
Members of the Society, being nominated by the Executive 
Committee and elected by a two-thirds vote of members present 
at the annual meeting; they shall not be subject to any dues, 
and shall have all the privileges of other members. 

X. ASSESSMENTS. 

Every member shall pay an annual assessment of one dollar, 
which shall be due on the first day of January of each year, and 
be paid to the Treasurer as soon as possible thereafter. 

Members admitted at or previous to the September meeting 
will be required to pay a full year's assessment. 

XI. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PERMANENT FUND. 

The Society shall elect, as hereafter provided, five of its mem- 
bers who shall constitute a Board of Trustees to be known as 



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the " Trustees of the Roxbury Historical Society." They shall 
have full charge and custody of all funds and property committed 
to their care by the Society, or by donation for either general or 
special purposes, and all bequests left to the Society by will. 

Said Board shall be elected at the annual meeting in Decem- 
ber, 1901, as follows : One Trustee shall be chosen to serve for 
one, two, three, four, and five years respectively, and at each suc- 
ceeding annual meeting, one member shall be elected for five 
years to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of term of 
office of any Trustee. The term of office of any Trustee shall 
commence on the first day of January following his election. 

If the Society shall fail to fill any vacancy in said Board on 
the annual meeting, or for any cause shall not hold an annual 
meeting during the month of December of any year, then the 
Executive Committee shall proceed to fill such vacancy, and the 
Trustee so elected shall serve until the next annual meeting of 
the Society, when an election for a Trustee to fill the vacancy 
for the unexpired term shall be held. Vacancies during the year 
caused by death or resignation shall not be filled until the next 
annual meeting of the Society, unless the number of Trustees are 
thereby reduced to less than three, in which case a special meet- 
ing of the Society shall be called by the President to fill such 
vacancies for the unexpired term. 

Said Board shall be organized by the election among them- 
selves of a Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. They may 
adopt any rules for their procedure, government, and care of 
property, not conflicting with the By-Laws of the Society or the 
Act of Incorporation. 

The Board shall make an annual report of receipts and expen- 
ditures to the Society at its annual meeting, and the books and 
vouchers of the Board may be audited at any time by any 
committee appointed by the Executive Committee of the Soci- 
ety, and shall be so audited as often as once in every year. 



lo BY- LA IV S. 

Not more than two members of the Trustees shall at any time 
be elected members of the Executive Committee of the Society. 

No Trustee shall be paid any salary or compensation for his 
services as Trustee or as Secretary or Treasurer of said Board of 
Trustees. 

The Trustees shall deposit all moneys coming into their pos- 
session in some bank or trust company where interest is allowed 
on deposit, or invest the same in the class of securities that 
Massachusetts Savings Banks are allowed to invest in, and shall 
not make any appropriations or expenditures out of said funds 
until the principal and one-half of the accumulated interest from 
said investments or deposits shall amount to the sum of Fifty 
Thousand Dollars. The other half of said interest shall be kept 
in a separate account, and may be expended at the discretion of 
the Trustees in the necessary expenses of the Board, or by 
transferring to the treasury of the Society, for general or specific 
purposes, such amounts as they may deem expedient ; they 
shall consider any request made by the Society for an appropri- 
ation from said interest fund, but shall have full power to accede 
to or decline such request. 

When said fund shall have reached the sum of $50,000, or at 
any time thereafter, said Trustees may at their discretion invest 
the same in the erection or purchase of a building which shall 
be located in Roxbury, for the purpose of earning an income, 
and also in which there shall be provided suitable rooms for the 
purposes of the Society, but no such building shall be contracted 
for or erected until the plans for the same are approved by 
two-thirds of the Executive Committee of the Society. 

The Trustees, at any time after said fund shall have increased 
to the sum of $50,000, may make appropriations out of said 
fund for the erection of monuments or other suitable memorials 
in honor of historic personages, objects, or events connected 
with the history of Roxbury as a town or city, or as part of the 



BY-LAIVS. II 

City of Boston, and may for such purposes make such appropri- 
ations in combination with the City of Boston, Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, or any society, corporation, or association, 
provided such appropriation shall not reduce the funds of the 
Trustees to an amount less than $50,000, or in case said $50,000 
has been invested in said building, to less than $5,000. 

All real estate which may in any manner come to the Society 
shall be taken and stand in the name of the Corporation, but 
the management thereof shall be in the hands of the Trustees. 

Nothing in the foregoing By-Laws shall prevent the Society 
from accepting contributions of money for specific or general 
purposes and expending the same. 

XII. AMENDMENTS. 

Amendments may be made to the By-Laws in the following 
manner : 

Any proposed amendment presented in writing at a regularly 
called meeting of the Society shall be read at that meeting and 
referred to the Executive Committee for their consideration. 

If such proposed amendment meets the approval of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee they shall report back the amendment to the 
Society at the next meeting for its action, and a copy of the 
proposed amendment shall be inserted in the call for said meet- 
ing. 

If the Executive Committee disapproves of the proposed 
amendment they shall report such action to the Society at its 
next meeting, and said amendment cannot be again proposed 
until after the next annual election of the officers of the 
Society. 

Amendments must receive the votes of two-thirds of the 
members present when final action is taken in order to be 
adopted. 



MEMBERS 



Allen, Horace G. 
AUgaier, George. 
Andrews, Richard F. , Jr. 
Appleton, George C. 
Arnold, H. D. 

Babcock, Frank M. 
Bacon, Augustus, Jr. 
Bacon, Horace. 
Bailey, Luther C. 
Baker, William G. 
Balch, Walter H. 
Bampton. Robert, Jr. 
Bartlett, Dr. James W. 
Bartlett. Jonathan B. L. 
Batchelder, Charles H. 
Bates, William M. 
Beal, B. Leighton. 
Beal, Caleb G. 
Beal, William W. 
Berger, C. Louis. 
Bergman, Joseph L. 
Bird, Capt. Lewis J. 
Blossom, William Alden. 
Bolster, Judge Solomon A. 
Bolster, Stanley M. 
Bolster, Judge Wilfred. 
Bostwick, John G. 
Brackett, George A. 
Brackett, Silas W. 
Bradlee J. Walter. 
Brickett, John S. 
Briggs, Frederick M. 
Brooks, George W. 



Brown, Lieut. J. Austin. 
Burrage, Albert C. 

Calder. Capt. Augustus P. 
Calderwood, S. H., M.D. 
Callanan, Sampson A., M.D. 
Carr, John. 

Cartwright, Charles E. 
Cate, Martin L. 
Chadbourne, Wm. L. 
Chapin, Geo. H. 
Chaplin, Frank P. 
Charak, William. 
Charles, Salem D. 
Clark, Lieut. Wm. H. 
Cleary, James P. 
Cohen, A. K. 
Colgan, James W. 
Comins, George A. 
Cook, John C. 
Cooke, Capt. Albert W. 
CouUahan, Lieut. James S. 
Cressey, Dar in M. 
Cronin, Daniel J. 
Crosby, Thomas. 
Curley, Edward T. 
Curtis, Hon. Edwin U. 
Curtis, Nelson. 

Daly, Bernard T., M.D. 
Daniels, Nathan H. 
Daniels, Nathan H., Jr. 
Davis, Frederick S. 
Davis, Hon. William W. 



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Desmond, James A. 

Dever, John F. 

Dorr, Jonathan. 

Dudley, Brig. -Gen. N. A. M. 

Dutton, Lorenzo B. 

Dwinnell, George S. 

Dyer, Capt. John J. 

Eichorn, William C. 
Emerson, George R. 
Emery, Maj. Wm. H. 
Emond, Joseph P. 
Esterbrook, Fred. C. 

Fail-bairn, Robt. B. 
Farmer, Lewis G. 
Farr, E. L., M.D. 
Ferdinand, Frank. 
Fisher, G. L. 
Fisk, Everett O. 
Fiske, Geo. M. 
Fleisher, John Nathan. 
Flusk, Francis X. 
Flynn, Edward Freeman. 

Flynn, James F. 

Foss, Eugene N. 

Foster, Herman. 

Fottier, Jacob. 

Fox, H. M. 

Frost, Albert G. 

Frost, Arthur H. 

Frost, Frank M. 

Frothingham, Capt. Joseph H. 

Fuller, Charles R. 

Galligan, Eugene T., M.D. 
Gammon, Irving P. 
Gaston, Col. William A. 
George, Elijah. 
Gilman, John E. 
Gove, William B. 



Grace, James J. 
Gragg, Capt. Isaac P. 
Gray, Edward T. 
Greene, Lieut. Oliver D. 
Gregory, Edward J. 
Gregory, George W. 
Griggs, John H. 

Hale, Rev. Edward Everett. 
Hamilton, Rev. Frederick W. 
Hammond, William H. 
Hatch, Edward. 
Hatch, Edward A. 
Hatch, Lincoln D. 
Hawley, Lieut. William H. 
Haynes, Frank H. 
Hedges, Col. Sidney M. 
Heinzen, Karl F. 
Hennigan, P. Frank. 
Herman, J. 

Hersey, Capt. Albert W. 
Hicks, William L. 

Hill, Albert F. 

Hill, Herbert C. 

Hill, William H. 
ames L. 
ey, Charles A. 

Hedges, Edward C. 

Hooton, Capt. Horace J. 

Howe, Alfred H. 

Hoyt, Thomas S. 

Hunting, Charles B. 

Jackson, William H. 
James, Benjamin F. 
Jones, David H., Jr, 
Jones, David L. 
Jones, Lewis L. 
Jones, Samuel C. 
Jordan, Col. Jediah P. 
Jordan, Robert A. 



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MEMBERS. 



Joj, Mellen R. 
Judkins, Charles E. 

Karns, J. Homer. 
Kelly, John L. 

Kenibbs, Corporal William P. 
Kennedy, Geo. G., M.D. 
Kimbali, L. Houghton, M.D. 
King, Harvey. 
Kitching, William H. 
Knower, Capt. Joseph S. 
Knowles, James G. 

Lawrence, H. S. 
Leckie, William J. 
Lewis, William H. 
Libby, Albert A. 
Lingham, George F. 
Lovejoy, F. K. 
Lovell, Charles B. 
Lowe, F. O. 
Lunt, William W. 
Lyons, Harvey E. 

Mahoney, James S. 

Mansur, James E. 

Marston, John M. 

Mason, Henry M. 

Mathews, George R. 

Mathews, Brig. -Gen. Thomas R. 

Mathews, William H. 

Maxwell, Arthur A. 

May, Benjamin. 

May, Henry A. 

May, John J. 

Mazur, Louis. 

McCrillas, John. 

McDonald, William J. 

McGlenen, Edward W. 

McLeod, Malcolm. 

McNeil, Terrance P. 



Melcher, Woodbury S. 
Miles, C. Edwin, M.D. 
Millett, George A. 
Mooar, Charles A. 
Moore, William H. 
Moran, John B. 
Morse, E. G., M.D. 
Morse, Herbert F. 
Morse, L. Foster. 
Morton, John D. 
Moses, George F. 
Mimroe, Capt. James. 

Naphen, Hon. H. F. 
Nason, Capt. George H. 
Nason, James E. 
Nason, Samuel C. 
Nevvmarch, Alfred. 
Newton, John F., Jr. 
Norton, John H. 

O'Connell, Maurice J. 
Olin, Hon. William M. 
O'Reiley, Wm. J., M.D. 
Orme, Philip. 
Osgood, Charles E. 

Page, Kilby. 
Parker, Thomas. 
Partridge, William H. 
Peabody, J. D. 
Pearson, Arthur E. 
Pearson, William H. 
Perkins, F. B. 
Perrins, Capt. John, Jr. 
Perrins, Maj. William A. 
Perry, A. D. 
Perry, Francis A. 
Peters, Andrew J. 
Pigeon, J. C. D., M.D. 
Pinkerton, George F. 



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Piper, Harry C. 
Porter, Charles H. 
Potter, George M. 
Prang, Louis. 
Praj, Joseph F. 
Putnam, Nathan A. 

Reed, William G. 
Reynolds, Edward B. 
Rhoades, Herbert A. 
Richards, Edward E. 
Roak, Millburj F. 
Rogers, Gorham. 
Rogers, Sergt. J. Austin. 
Rounds, Myron. 
Rowe, Henry W. 
Rowe, Morris B. 
Rugg, Frederic W. 
Ruggles, Henr}' Stoddard. 
Ruhl, Edward. 
Rumrill, William S. 
Russell, F. C. 
Russell, H. E. 
Russell, William L. 
Ryder, Nathan Prince, 

Savell, Charles E. 
Sanborn, Eugene D. 
Scates, George M. 
Schooner, Joseph Y. 
Schromm, John. 
Schubarth, Cromwell T. 
Scott, Capt. John A. 
Seaver, Hon. Edward. 
Shaw, Franklin A. 
Shay, Michael F. 
Shay, William E. 
Shuman, A. 
Shuman, Samuel. 
Shute, Judson. 
Skillings, W. E. 



Smith, James C. 

Smith, Maj. Wm. A. 

Somers, Clarence W. 

Spencer, Gardner W. 

Spooner, Hospital Steward Wallace. 

Sproul, Thomas J. 

Stevens, J. E. 

Stockbridge, Charles H. D. 

Stone, Col. Ebenezer W. 

Swain, Charles E. 

Swain, William N. 

Thomas, William H. 
Thwing, Walter Eliot. 

Van Amringe, W. B. 

Ward, Francis Jackson. 
Warren, George. 
Waterman, Dependence S. 
Waterman, Frank S. 
Waterman, George H. 
Whipple, George O. 
Whitcomb, Harland P. 
Whitcomb, N. O. 
White, F. O. 
White, H. Warren, M.D. 
Whittington, Hiram. 
Wiggin, Archer C. 
Wiggin, Charles E. 
Williams, David W. 
Williams, Franklin S. 
Williams, John D. 
Williams, Stephen H. 
Wiswall, Romanzo N. 
Woodward, Harlow E. 
Worthen, William F. 
Worthington, Roland. 
Wright, Chandler. 

Zittel, George, Jr. 



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